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The Department of Veterans Affairs Rehabilitation Research & Development Center of Excellence for Limb Loss Prevention and Prosthetic Engineering (Seattle, WA) is soliciting applications for a principal investigator to join our established research team. The mission of our Center is to improve the quality of life and functional status of Veterans who are at risk for lower limb amputation and Veterans who are lower limb amputees. The major responsibility of the successful applicant will be to independently initiate and conduct federally and non-federally funded scientific research related to furthering this mission. The complexity of this research will necessarily include both theoretical and experimental investigations comprised of a series of complete and conceptually-related studies involving multi-disciplinary approaches and collaborations. These studies shall answer important questions, open new avenues for further study and result in important changes to existing interventions and clinical practices related to amputation prevention and the rehabilitation of amputees.
Center investigators collaborate with VA and University of Washington Departments of Mechanical Engineering, Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine, Rehabilitation Medicine, Bioengineering, Electrical Engineering, Health Services and Epidemiology, and Computer Science and Engineering, as well as the Applied Physics Laboratory. The purpose of the Center's research is broad. It includes human biomechanics and its applications in the fields of orthopaedics, rehabilitation, amputation prevention, motion analysis and prosthetic design. It also includes the biopsychosocial aspects of amputee rehabilitation and treatment, as well as, the effect of rehabilitation interventions on function and quality of life. This work has the potential for having a major impact on the diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation of Veterans and non-veterans suffering physical trauma and diminished lower limb function.
The duties of the successful applicant will include: defining problems of clinical relevance, formulating appropriate hypotheses, developing new approaches, methods and techniques as needed, applying for and obtaining funding support from national sponsors (federal and non-federal), supervising and training laboratory staff, interpreting results and communicating their significance via publication in peer-reviewed journals and presentation at relevant national/international conferences.
This position requires a Ph.D. degree appropriate to the applicant’s field of research. The ability to conduct scientific research must be demonstrated through authorship of scientific papers published in peer reviewed journals, and a history of research funding as an independent Principal Investigator. Ability to attract investigator-initiated funding from the Department of Veterans Affairs and other government and/or non-government agencies is essential.
No phone calls please. Interested candidates (U.S. citizens only) should e-mail or mail a cover letter, curriculum vitae and contact information for three references to:
William Ledoux, Ph.D.
VA Puget Sound, ms 151
1660 S. Columbian Way
Seattle, WA 98108
wrledoux@u.washington.edu
The Department of Veterans Affairs Rehabilitation Research & Development Center of Excellence for Limb Loss Prevention and Prosthetic Engineering (Seattle, WA) is soliciting applications for a principal investigator to join our established research team. The mission of our Center is to improve the quality of life and functional status of Veterans who are at risk for lower limb amputation and Veterans who are lower limb amputees. The major responsibility of the successful applicant will be to independently initiate and conduct federally and non-federally funded scientific research related to furthering this mission. The complexity of this research will necessarily include both theoretical and experimental investigations comprised of a series of complete and conceptually-related studies involving multi-disciplinary approaches and collaborations. These studies shall answer important questions, open new avenues for further study and result in important changes to existing interventions and clinical practices related to amputation prevention and the rehabilitation of amputees.
Center investigators collaborate with VA and University of Washington Departments of Mechanical Engineering, Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine, Rehabilitation Medicine, Bioengineering, Electrical Engineering, Health Services and Epidemiology, and Computer Science and Engineering, as well as the Applied Physics Laboratory. The purpose of the Center's research is broad. It includes human biomechanics and its applications in the fields of orthopaedics, rehabilitation, amputation prevention, motion analysis and prosthetic design. It also includes the biopsychosocial aspects of amputee rehabilitation and treatment, as well as, the effect of rehabilitation interventions on function and quality of life. This work has the potential for having a major impact on the diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation of Veterans and non-veterans suffering physical trauma and diminished lower limb function.
The duties of the successful applicant will include: defining problems of clinical relevance, formulating appropriate hypotheses, developing new approaches, methods and techniques as needed, applying for and obtaining funding support from national sponsors (federal and non-federal), supervising and training laboratory staff, interpreting results and communicating their significance via publication in peer-reviewed journals and presentation at relevant national/international conferences.
This position requires a Ph.D. degree appropriate to the applicant’s field of research. The ability to conduct scientific research must be demonstrated through authorship of scientific papers published in peer reviewed journals, and a history of research funding as an independent Principal Investigator. Ability to attract investigator-initiated funding from the Department of Veterans Affairs and other government and/or non-government agencies is essential.
No phone calls please. Interested candidates (U.S. citizens only) should e-mail or mail a cover letter, curriculum vitae and contact information for three references to:
William Ledoux, Ph.D.
VA Puget Sound, ms 151
1660 S. Columbian Way
Seattle, WA 98108
wrledoux@u.washington.edu
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